HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1403
CHAPTER 673.
(House Bill 452)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 8
of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Merit System", relating to an appointing officer passing
over a veteran eligible; and to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 9 of Article 64A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Merit System", as the same was
repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 16 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland at the Regular Session of
1936 relating to credits for certain types of experience;
relating to certain credits to be allowed certain widows and
wives of war veterans; repealing all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act; providing that
if any part of said Act is found to be unconstitutional it
shall not affect the rest of said Act; and making this an
emergency Act to take effect from the date of its passage.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 8 of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Merit System", also Section 9 of Article 64A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Merit System", as
the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 16 of the
Acts of 1936, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

8. Whenever a vacancy in any position in the classified serv-
ice is to be filled, the appointing authority shall make requisi-
tion upon the Commissioner for eligibles. The Commissioner
shall thereupon certify to the appointing authority the names
and addresses of the five persons standing highest upon the
eligible list for the class in which the position is found, or if
there be less than five, then such name or names as may be on
such list, and said appointing authority shall appoint one of
said persons so certified to said position. That an appointing
officer who passes over a veteran eligible as provided in Sec-
tion 9 of this Article, and selects a non-veteran shall file with
the State Employment Commissioner a substantial reason for
so doing, which shall become a part of the record of such
veteran eligible, and shall be made available upon request to
the veteran or his designated representatives; the State Em-
ployment Commissioner is directed to determine the suffi-
ciency of such submitted reason and, if found insufficient,
shall require such appointing officer to submit more detailed
information in support thereof; if the reason so received be
deemed insufficient by the State Employment Commissioner,